Sorry for the break in posting. Hopefully this post will send when I get mobile signal again. We spent Tuesday moored at Craighouse. The home of Jura whiskey. It wouldn’t have been right if we hadn’t visited the distillery and tasted the product at the largest producer of single malt in the world. The tour was very interesting hearing the history and seeing how whisky is made, and the culmination in the shop tasting our 2 drams of a choice of several flavours. I opted to try the red wine aged and the 12 year old whiskey. After enjoying the red wine aged single malt the 12 year old won, and I ended up bringing a bottle back to the boat. Will it still be in the locker when I get home or will it be an empty bottle? So far my will has been strong enough to resist opening it. It probably helps that it is in one of the most difficult lockers to get to.

We set off Wednesday morning heading south towards the Sound of Islay, resisting the temptation to visit Islay with its numerous distilleries. We arrived at the mouth of the sound just after the tide had changed and took a ride on the North going tide reaching 3 kts by the top end. We passed 3 distilleries as we went up the sound. We were heading for Loch Tarbert on the Western side of Jura. We entered the loch with towering hills and mountains. It was interesting to see the raised beaches, remnants of the ice age. We continued following various transits to avoid rocks to the head of the outer loch and anchored just off a Mountain Bothy. The inner loch is accessible through a narrow channel between cliffs opposite where we anchored. With the depth of water and tidal flow, entry and exit is only recommended at HW. We went up in the dinghy last night, but the number of visible and the number of rocks lurking below the surface would make it difficult to anchor.

Today we pulled up our anchors and found them covered in clay, just as we are used to on the East Coast. It’s a windless drizzly day. Visibility is not good in the showers. We are currently heading for another secluded anchorage North of the Island of Seil. I can’t pronounce let alone spell it. Probably another night of no mobile coverage. I will add more pictures when we have better mobile coverage.